October 2008
September 2008
I Hate Tuesdays.
I’m awake at six a.m. and I’m going, going, going until 9 p.m. at school. I was falling asleep in my last class and I ran to grab a sugar-free Red Bull to make it through the next.
My parents caution me to enjoy my last bits of college before I enter the real world, but I ask them and others of a similar mindset to consider the following:
Living paycheck to paycheck, mired in...
Weekly Disney
mufti:
Beast: I want to do something for her… but what? Cogsworth: Well, there’s the usual things: flowers… chocolates… promises you don’t intend to keep…
Chokehold.
Sometimes I feel like I’m suffocating for air while in a warm, stuffy room filled with people and it takes every bit of willpower I can summon to not flee and stumble outside where there is absolutely nobody around but my own mind, thank god—just me.
A hairy situation.
Brandon: You should call up your ex and ask her to see you, you know, even in your hairy ways...
Brandon's Friend: She wrote a poem once about my hair, so I don't think she has a problem with it.
Brandon: What?
Friend: You know, I trim.
Brandon: You trim...where?!
Friend: I trim where it matters.
Concrete graveyards.
I don’t know if this is a regional issue, but no matter which road or byway I take in the DC/VA/MD area, there are dozens of squirrel corpses littering my path. There are no less than 5 dead squirrels in a one-mile stretch on the way to school. This is a bad omen (of what I do not know) and I’m not sure whether to blame bad driving, overpopulation or an angry god for the cruel fate...
Shh.
My sister and I have been working on a secret project that is nearly complete.
Materialistic side note.
Barack Obama wears the most complimentary suits and ties.
I’ll post something more meaningful after the debate has concluded.
Mercury in retrograde.
Yesterday, the planet Mercury went into retrograde.
A retrograde period is best seen as a cycle, beginning when the planet begins to slow to a halt before travelling backwards through the zodiac and ending when the planet returns to the point where it first paused.
If you’ve been having a bad or weird week, maybe you should blame space patterns instead.
Mercury retrograde gives rise to...
The palate.
I like strong foods that most people do not.
This includes (but is not limited to): olives, pickles, sauerkraut, exotic/strong cheeses.
mufti:
Is it wrong that I am thinking about Christmas presents already?
As a child, I always marveled at the stress that adults felt around Christmas. Now I understand: you’re broke, gaining a pound a day and navigating the potential minefield of family politics. Scary.
Rock Band II.
I cringe a bit to say this, but so far, I’m not completely convinced I like it.
“The Democratic Party has never been invested with power on the basis of a...”
– Robert F. Kennedy
It's in the mail
magicalteacher:
As an American citizen, and a member of another country as well (dual-citizen) I have NEVER felt it was my duty to vote. I really didn’t care…up until now. (This thought falls on my daughters’ ears with a huge thud!)
I look at this country where I live and work, and I admire the people here who work hard for a living and I finally feel that my lonely vote may make a...
Jaded
lenachen:
And there was a moment there, right after I saw it, when I did think the worst. The worst wasn’t “there’s someone else.” It was “he’s someone else.”
My biggest relationship fear is not unfaithfulness. I have a strange empathy for people who cheat, probably because I’ve been the other woman way too many times and can tell the difference between one-time accidents and purposeful...
Watchdanhacker:
(via hatchetentry)
This is exactly how I felt at every orchestra practice last year. Hits a little too close to home. I feel violated.
Television guilty pleasures.
Supernatural
Ghost Hunters
The Rachel Zoe Project
Things to do today.
Stay awake
Find inventive ways to stay awake
Buy coffee
Tape open eyelids
Shot of espresso
Pop some Excedrin for my “headache”
Etc.
Sniff Sniff (tear...)
jeralyndwile:
Today when I was walking in the halls of my school I smelt my sister. I smelt her and I turned around, looked around…and she wasn’t there.
Obviously someone had on her victoria’s secret perfume…but for the first time in a month, I actually got homesick.
I miss you too! :(
Taking Sides! →
walpaper:
funtime:
Fighting with your significant other? Who’s right and who’s wrong? Air it out anonymously while letting people of the world give you advice and make the decision on who should apologize.
If life were only this simple. In every relationship I’ve ever been this would never work. She’s right no matter what and a website or every human being on the internet won’t prove her...
You know it's a messed-up world when... →
…you do a Google Image search for “piccolo” and the Dragon Ball Z character shows up 17 times and a real piccolo only 3.
I play the piccolo, by the way. The instrument, not the green man.
Listening to NPR.
I hate when NPR has on-air commentators who like to smack their lips together during pauses in speech, causing disgusting smacking sounds to boom over the airwaves as their tongue and lips collide.
“The Emmy-winning writer for ‘John Adams’ was ironically cut off by...”
– Awardsdaily.com
There are several quote-worthy paragraphs in this article, the next being:
“So last night we were subjected to all 5 of the least interesting nominees in the trashiest category paraded repeatedly onstage, allowed to indulge in an endless skit that was worse than a preschool...
Grading quizzes.
These are real answers from a quiz I’m grading. I think my brain just exploded.
Question : Define realism.
Answer : Is when the dilemma is looked at from a prospective view of how it really is not from a point of view which is ideal.
Queston : Define idealism.
Answer : The situation is looked at and treated with a view that is not really what it is but they chose to...
Fasting.
You’d have to be blind to miss it: juice fasts and/or cleanses are booming in popularity. They’ve always been a fringe, last-ditch diet effort, but lately seem to be increasing in consistency of use. 3-day juice cleanses twice or three times every two weeks does not qualify as being outside the realm of medical supervision (any cleanse over 3 days is recommended to be under the watch...
Dupont Circle.
As Brandon and I descended down the escalator into the depths of Metrorail late last night, there were large amounts of prepsters heading up the escalator on the opposite side. They were easily recognizable, given their mostly European-American descent (uber-white), surfer-influenced clothing (Abercrombie) and superfluous eye make-up (The Hills). Both he and I looked at each other and made a...
Running with my dog.
It really breaks my rhythm when she comes to a halt and poos in the grass for five minutes.
Introvert.
Whenever I act outgoing, I am absolutely positive that everyone around me sees right through the fake act and is laughing cruelly at my behavior.
I should just keep my mouth shut and stay home and read a book.
Oh my.
Weddings are insane.
I see why people:
Elope
Do destination weddings with 20 guests tops
Take a trip to the ol’ court house
“A more serious addition to the Nano makes it accessible to users with impaired...”
– Rob Pegoraro for the Washington Post
I think this a wonderful addition, and I’ll be interested to see how users with impaired vision respond to the product.